Eli Broad
Eli and Edythe Broad gave $100 million in 2004 to start the Broad Institute and kept giving until their total passed $700 million in 2013; the genomics it produced underpins much of precision oncology.
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Eli Broad (1933-2021) and Edythe Broad founded the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a $100 million gift in 2004, followed by a second $100 million in 2005 ('Broads' Dollars Doubled', in the Institute's words), an endowment gift in 2008 that made it permanent, and a further $100 million in 2013 which, the Institute stated, brought their total contributions to $700 million, making them the second largest donors ever to a university, hospital or research institute for biomedical research. The Institute is not a cancer centre, but its cancer programme produced the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia, the Dependency Map and much of The Cancer Genome Atlas, and its sequencing and analysis tools are used in nearly every tumour genomics study. The Broads' gifts are the clearest case of disease-agnostic science philanthropy paying off for cancer.
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